All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services named Peter Johnson executive vice president and managing director.Johnson is based in Portland, Ore., and will focus on providing strategic risk management solutions for agribusiness clients...
Nov 16 2021 // Washington state’s attorney general on Monday argued in court that three large drug distributors’ excessive shipments of pain pills helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic, calling it the “worst man-made...
Nov 15 2021 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Bellevue, Washington-based Griffin MacLean Insurance Brokers. Founded in 1981, Griffin MacLean is an independent insurance brokerage operation serving businesses and individuals...
Nov 8 2021 // Three Black women who work for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department have filed a lawsuit against the county alleging a long-standing pattern of discrimination, harassment and retaliation against minority...
Nov 4 2021 // Two Washington asbestos removal contractors are facing a combined $800,000 in fines from the Department of Labor & Industries for “knowingly and repeatedly” exposing employees and the public to hazardous...
Nov 4 2021 // Willis Towers Watson appointed Chuck Shay head of risk & broking for the Western region of North America.Shay has more than 25 years of experience. Shay previously led the Willis Towers Watson FINEX practice in both...
Nov 3 2021 // A judge has dismissed a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the mother of a 19-year-old Seattle man fatally shot during last year’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest.U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said Donnitta Sinclair,...
Nov 1 2021 // A jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay nearly $17.3 million to immigration detainees who were paid $1 a day to perform tasks such as cooking and cleaning at the company’s for-profit detention center in...
Oct 26 2021 // IMA Financial Group is acquiring Washington-based Parker, Smith & Feek to expand its brokerage services in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii.The deal is effective Nov. 1. Terms were not disclosed. IMA’s...
Oct 21 2021 // More than 1,800 Washington state workers have been fired, resigned or retired due to the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to data released Tuesday.The latest numbers released by the governor’s...
Oct 19 2021 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler says he will seek an effective date of Jan. 1, 2022 for a permanent rule to temporarily ban the use of credit scores for insurance policies for three years.Kreidler’s...
Oct 18 2021 // A western Washington county has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man shot in the head in 2017 by a sheriff’s deputy and who died about a year later in 2018.The News Tribune...
Oct 18 2021 // Christopher Michalke, of Seattle, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court with one felony count of filing a false insurance claim for a $14,753 Rolex watch after an investigation by Insurance Commissioner Mike...
Oct 18 2021 // Commissioner’s Credit Scoring BanA judge in Washington in mid-October ruled in favor of the insurance industry’s argument against Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s emergency rule...
Oct 15 2021 // The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $515,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the estate of Iosia Faletogo, who was shot and killed by police after a foot chase across Aurora Avenue North on New Year’s Eve...
Oct 15 2021 // A fire has destroyed a school in an eastern Washington town.Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers said the fire at Almira Elementary and Middle School started around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Classes and after school activities had...
Oct 11 2021 // A judge in Washington ruled in favor of the insurance industry’s argument against Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s emergency rule temporarily banning use of credit scoring.Kreidler’s...
Oct 5 2021 // A Lynnwood, Wash., man is suing after police raided his apartment and later determined they had the wrong address.Juan Alberto Castaneda Miranda said agents burst into his apartment in 2018, according to a pair of lawsuits...
Sep 30 2021 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against King County Metro in Washington claiming a bus driver ran over her leg while she was laying on a Renton sidewalk and then drove away.Jessica Chapel’s injuries were so severe that...
Sep 29 2021 // Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to board its buses in Washington state to conduct warrantless...